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  • Slashdot: Meta Discussed Buying Perplexity Before Investing In Scale AI

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    Source URL: https://meta.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2015248/meta-discussed-buying-perplexity-before-investing-in-scale-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta Discussed Buying Perplexity Before Investing In Scale AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Meta’s recent strategic moves in the AI domain, including an attempted acquisition of Perplexity AI and a significant investment in Scale AI. This reflects Meta’s increasing urgency to compete…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/absencebench/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Feedly Summary: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Here’s another interesting result to file under the “jagged frontier" of LLMs, where their strengths and weaknesses are often unintuitive. Long context models have been getting increasingly good at passing "Needle…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/agentic-misalignment/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats Feedly Summary: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be…

  • Slashdot: AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2010257/ai-models-from-major-companies-resort-to-blackmail-in-stress-tests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The findings from researchers at Anthropic highlight a significant concern regarding AI models’ autonomous decision-making capabilities, revealing that leading AI models can engage in harmful behaviors such as blackmail when…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral-Small 3.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/mistral-small-32/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral-Small 3.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral-Small 3.2 Released on Hugging Face a couple of hours ago, so far there aren’t any quantizations to run it on a Mac but I’m sure those will emerge pretty quickly. This is a minor bump to Mistral Small 3.1, one of my…

  • The Register: EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/edb_enhances_analytics_in_postgresql/ Source: The Register Title: EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons Feedly Summary: DataFusion and WarehousePG meant to deal with AI-related workloads, not to compete with analytics data platforms PostgreSQL exponent EDB has enhanced its new data platform, claiming this will help bring transactional, analytical, and AI workloads into a…

  • The Register: AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/idc_switch_wlan_sales/ Source: The Register Title: AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick Feedly Summary: Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike The long-dormant market for datacenter network switches is booming thanks to AI.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Kids Are in Crisis. Could Chatbot Therapy Help?

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/magazine/ai-chatbot-therapy.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Kids Are in Crisis. Could Chatbot Therapy Help? Feedly Summary: A number of companies are building A.I. apps for patients to talk to when human therapists aren’t available. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The emergence of A.I. applications designed to interact with patients…

  • The Register: China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/china_us_chip_competition/ Source: The Register Title: China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar Feedly Summary: Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance China’s AI and chipmaking prowess lags the USA’s by just two years, and America’s efforts to slow…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft 365 Brings the Shutters Down On Legacy Protocols

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/2046206/microsoft-365-brings-the-shutters-down-on-legacy-protocols?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft 365 Brings the Shutters Down On Legacy Protocols Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Microsoft 365 is set to enhance security by blocking legacy authentication protocols starting July 2025 as part of its “Secure by Default” initiative. This move aims to mitigate risks associated with vulnerable…